Monday, September 20, 2010

Joel from PTBC takes a look at the last 2, err make that 3 EKOS polls here.

Take a read. Like most of what Joel puts up it is well worth the time to do so.

I wonder why the Sept 1-7 poll was never made public on the 9th as is typical with EKOS CBC polls, and why the info showed up in the 16th data?

Maybe the CBC was trying to save some cash and didn't want to cough up that week or maybe it was some other reason, but I doubt we will ever get the answer or find out if our publicly funded broadcaster ponied up for that week or not. My guess is that their deal with EKOS, spending our tax dollars, is one of those things that the CBC wants to keep secret from us.

What bugs me the most is the kind of headlines that the media (and Graves on his EKOS website) use. It's almost always something like "A dead heat", "A statistical tie", "Tories have a small lead". Then you have to read through the article to get the numbers, and even THEN, you might not get them, and have to read the .pdf file !

When you are working with numbers why not USE those numbers in the headline and story ! Something simple like "Tories lead by 3 points" or "Tories ahead 32.4 to 29.4".

These guys are incredibly frustrating and mediocre in their "reporting". One doesn't need adjectives to describe numbers. The numbers are what they are. Just put the friggin' numbers in the headline, and throw away your thesarus.

The last Ekos poll was too Conservative in its numbers because they actually called me and I live in Quebec! Also went for the A.D.Q. for the provincial poll. By the way, I am against the arena, but they didn't ask that directly.

So what do you Albertans expect from Harper a man who is a liberal in blue and doesn't have the balls to cut CBC funding or privatise them. Yes we Ontarians are so impressed considering we are always accused of voting liberal, but then that is the type of con you lot have been voting for, yea Stelmach.

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